R: Graph Laplacian

laplacian_matrix {igraph} | R Documentation

## Graph Laplacian

### Description

The Laplacian of a graph.

### Usage

    laplacian_matrix(graph, normalized = FALSE, weights = NULL,
      sparse = igraph_opt("sparsematrices"))

### Arguments

`graph` | The input graph.
`normalized` | Whether to calculate the normalized Laplacian. See definitions below.
`weights` | An optional vector giving edge weights for weighted Laplacian matrix. If this is `NULL` and the graph has an edge attribute called `weight`, then it will be used automatically. Set this to `NA` if you want the unweighted Laplacian on a graph that has a `weight` edge attribute.
`sparse` | Logical scalar, whether to return the result as a sparse matrix. The `Matrix` package is required for sparse matrices.

### Details

The Laplacian Matrix of a graph is a symmetric matrix having the same number of rows and columns as the number of vertices in the graph and element (i,j) is d[i], the degree of vertex i if if i==j, -1 if i!=j and there is an edge between vertices i and j and 0 otherwise.

A normalized version of the Laplacian Matrix is similar: element (i,j) is 1 if i==j, -1/sqrt(d[i] d[j]) if i!=j and there is an edge between vertices i and j and 0 otherwise.

The weighted version of the Laplacian simply works with the weighted degree instead of the plain degree. I.e. (i,j) is d[i], the weighted degree of vertex i if if i==j, -w if i!=j and there is an edge between vertices i and j with weight w, and 0 otherwise. The weighted degree of a vertex is the sum of the weights of its adjacent edges.

### Value

A numeric matrix.

### Author(s)

Gabor Csardi csardi.gabor@gmail.com

### Examples

    g <- make_ring(10)
    laplacian_matrix(g)
    laplacian_matrix(g, norm=TRUE)
    laplacian_matrix(g, norm=TRUE, sparse=FALSE)

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